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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
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Ideas are the roots of creation.
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The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
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Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's…
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Ideas are the root of creation.
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Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are…
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Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
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Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.
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Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is…
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A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare…
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Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name
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The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of…
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We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us…
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Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot…
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Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need…
— Ernest Dimnet
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Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a…
— Virginia Woolf
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Beloved, we are always in the wrong, Handling so clumsily our stupid lives, Suffering too little or too long, Too careful even…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult - at least…
— Charles Darwin
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If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives, to seek the kinds of growth…
— Unknown Author
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